Holograph, signed

May's writing near the address reads, "Rec'd April 29."

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Haughton mentions the address of the Irish Unitarians and "the mean subterfuge resorted to avoid giving any reply to it." He says he hears that Dr. Orville Dewy has been pleading for the slaveholders and that a slaveholder was elected president of the American Unitarian Association. Haughton informs May that the Evangelical Alliance delegates were coldly received in Ireland and that he does not think that the Liberty Party can do much for the slaves. He tells May that the Society of Friends accepted contributions from slaveholders, but not money raised by a theatrical benefit performance. Haughton mentions the Irish Confederation

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